Vanderburgh County, IN
The federal environmental record for Vanderburgh County (population 179,810): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
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Superfund NPL sites
4
federal cleanup sites
1
PFAS-detecting water systems
15
TRI facilities
64
open tank releases
Superfund NPL sites
| Site | City | Status | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jacobsville Neighborhood Soil Contamination | Evansville | on the NPL | 07/22/2004 |
Drinking water: PFAS testing
Public water systems serving Vanderburgh with at least one PFAS detection under UCMR5. The federal limit for PFOA and PFOS is 4 ng/L; EPA proposed in May 2026 to rescind the limits for the other compounds, which are shown for information.
| System | Highest results | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| GERMAN TOWNSHIP WATER DISTRICT INC. IN5282003 | PFPeA: 8.5 ng/L | detected |
On a system with detections? Testing and treatment options
Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)
15 facilities in Vanderburgh filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 166k lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| RED SPOT PAINT & VARNISH CO INC | EVANSVILLE | 1,2,4-Trimethylbenzene, sec-Butyl alcohol | 136k lb |
| SILGAN WHITE CAP CORP | EVANSVILLE | Certain glycol ethers, Xylene (mixed isomers) | 20k lb |
| TICONA POLYMERS INC | EVANSVILLE | Antimony And Antimony Compounds, Zinc compounds | 5k lb |
| SRG GLOBAL TRIM LLC | EVANSVILLE | Nitric acid, Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 3k lb |
| UNISEAL INC | EVANSVILLE | Certain glycol ethers, 4,4'-Isopropylidenediphenol | 1k lb |
| UNISEAL INC. | EVANSVILLE | Zinc compounds | 852 lb |
| MEAD JOHNSON NUTRITION | EVANSVILLE | Zinc compounds | 180 lb |
| GEORGE KOCH SONS LLC | EVANSVILLE | Chromium, Nickel | 61 lb |
| ENVALIOR ENGINEERING MATERIALS | EVANSVILLE | Antimony compounds | 17 lb |
| LYONDELLBASELL ADVANCED POLYMERS INC. | EVANSVILLE | Tetrabromobisphenol A | 1 lb |
| PURINA ANIMAL NUTRITION LLC - EVANSVILLE | EVANSVILLE | - | 0 lb |
| LYONDELLBASELL ADVANCED POLYMERS INC. | EVANSVILLE | Lead compounds | 0 lb |
| BOOTZ PLUMBING WARE CO | EVANSVILLE | - | 0 lb |
| CHEM GROUP US LLC | EVANSVILLE | - | 0 lb |
| BERRY GLOBAL INC | EVANSVILLE | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 539 tank facilities in Vanderburgh: 324 tanks in service and 1,277 closed. 354 fuel releases are on record, of which 64 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Vanderburgh as Zone 2, moderate predicted indoor radon (2 to 4 pCi/L average). Radon and air quality are covered in depth on lung.com.
The record for one specific address
County figures blur what matters: distance. The Address Environmental Report runs these same federal datasets against one address and reports every site, tank, polluter and water result around it, with distances, in about a minute.
Get the report - $39All federal cleanup sites on file
The wider Superfund enterprise inventory (SEMS) for Vanderburgh, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- CRESCENT CLEANERS SITEEVANSVILLE
- EVANSVILLE PLATING WORKSEVANSVILLE
- JACOBSVILLE NEIGHBORHOOD SOIL CONTAMINATIONEVANSVILLE
- MILLER PLATINGEVANSVILLE